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algorithms; cows; milk; models; physiological state; spectral analysis; time series analysis; wavelengths
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... This research study developed milk spectral data-driven approach, called Adaptive Spectral Model for Abnormality Detection - ASMAD, for detection of physiological abnormalities of individual dairy cows. The algorithm is based on the logic that milk spectra of each individual cow is highly animal-specific, which means it could be used as a respective individual marker for identification. When the a ...
chemometrics; chickpeas; food composition; least squares; models; prediction; protein content; reflectance; spectral analysis; support vector machines; wavelengths
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... Evaluating the protein content of a single chickpea seed in a rapid, non-destructive, and precise manner is crucial for facilitating the breeding of high-protein chickpeas. This study explored the potential of near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to predict the protein content in a single chickpea seed. Eight varieties of chickpeas with different protein contents were subjected to NIR r ...
... A fluorescence and photothermal dual-signal assay was developed for the determination of ascorbic acid (AA). Cerium/polyacrylic acid modified porphyrin metal-organic frameworks (PCN-224@PAA-Ce MOFs) exhibit oxidase-like activity and can effectively oxidize 3,3 ′, 5,5 ′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) from colorless substrates to blue substrates (oxTMB). The absorption spectrum of oxTMB overlaps with th ...
atomic force microscopy; contact angle; ethanol; glass transition temperature; hydrocolloids; microstructure; permeability; sodium caseinate; solvents; spectral analysis; tensile strength; thermal stability; water vapor; zein
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... To improve the mechanical and barrier properties of zein films, sodium caseinate (CN) was combined with zein to fabricate composite films, by achieving co-dispersion of the two proteins in a newly developed film-forming solvent mixture (60% v/v aqueous ethanol, at 65 °C). The synergistic interactions between CN and zein at various ratios in the films were evaluated. Incorporation of CN into zein-b ...
bioavailability; digestion; disulfide bonds; dithiothreitol; encapsulation; food chemistry; lipophilicity; methylcellulose; pH; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; resveratrol; solubility; soybeans; spectral analysis; temperature
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... We employed dithiothreitol (DTT) to reassemble soy lipophilic protein (LP) and increased its solubility for encapsulating resveratrol (Res); we subsequently added hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) to further stabilize Res. Physicochemical characterization, sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and spectral analysis revealed that DTT triggered the breakage and reassembly of ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; chemical oxygen demand; electric current; hydrogen peroxide; industrial wastewater; irradiation; light; liquids; photocatalysis; photocatalysts; spectral analysis; spectrometers; superoxide anion; tetracycline; total organic carbon; China
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... AgCl/ZnO/g-C₃N₄, a visible light activated ternary composite catalyst, was prepared by combining calcination, hydrothermal reaction and in-situ deposition processes to treat/photocatalyse tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl) from pharmaceutical wastewater under visible light. The morphological, structural, electrical, and optical features of the novel photocatalyst were characterized using scanning ...
... Potato virus Y (Potyviridae, PVY) is a plant virus that poses a significant threat to potato producers on a global basis. The pathogen has disrupted seed potato supplies and negatively impacted yield and quality of commercial potato crops. The potato industry currently manages PVY infection levels via insecticide applications, regional seed certification programs that rely on field scouting to vis ...
Bayesian theory; data collection; electroencephalography; models; spectral analysis; time series analysis; wind speed; California
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... Spectral analysis discovers trends, periodic and other characteristics of a time series by representing these features in the frequency domain. However, when multivariate time series are considered, and the number of components increases, the size of the spectral density matrix grows quadratically, making estimation and inference rather challenging. The proposed novel Bayesian framework considers ...
... In the oxidation treatment of textile dyeing sludge, the quantitative and transformation laws of organic chlorine are not clear enough. Thus, this study mainly evaluated the treatment of textile dyeing sludge by Fenton and Fenton-like system from the aspects of the influence of Cl⁻, the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organic carbon, and the removal and formation mechanism o ...
beverage industry; calibration; green tea; least squares; models; prediction; quality control; rapid methods; spectral analysis; spectroscopy; water content
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... Fixation is the key step of green tea processing, usually with moisture content as the quality evaluation indicator. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been widely used in tea moisture detection but is mostly realized in the laboratory, and online detection in tea processing is limited. This study explores the possibility of calibration transfer from lab-based hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to onli ...
... Dopamine hydrochloride (DH) and D-Glutamic acid (D-Glu) are important excitatory neurotransmitters, which are closely relative to central nervous system diseases. Therefore, it is critical to develop the sensitive and facile sensor to precisely monitor the changes of these neurotransmitters. Herein, the gadolinium-doped carbon dots (Gd-CDs) were synthesized by a low-cost and effortless one-pot sol ...
... To assess the intramuscular fat (IMF) of Longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) primal cut excised from an animal carcass, rib sections are dissected for chemical or subjective evaluation. Dissection destroys the integrity of the LTL. This study examined the feasibility of developing a method based on hyperspectral imaging to predict the IMF of pork LTL using hyperspectral imaging. Spectral inform ...
... Accurate identification of various liquors from the same brand is of great significance for safeguarding the rights and interests of consumers and the market economy. Here, the spectral properties of liquors were studied based on ultraviolet (UV), near-infrared (NIR) and multi-way fluorescence spectroscopy. Then these liquors were distinguished by integrating their spectral properties with the che ...
... Absorbance-transmission and fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (A-TEEM) spectroscopy was investigated as a rapid method for predicting maturity indices using Cabernet Sauvignon grapes produced under four viticulture treatments during two growing seasons. Machine learning models were developed with fused spectral data to predict 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP), pH, total tannins (Tannin), ...
... The main purpose of this research article is to develop a vortex-assisted switchable hydrophilicity solvent liquid phase microextraction (VA-SHS-LPME) for the selective and efficient extraction of trace vanillin in food samples. Four switchable hydrophilicity solvents (SHSs) were prepared and tested for the extraction of vanillin. The obtained extract phase after phase separation was analyzed by U ...
... Heterogeneous photocatalysis has gained substantial research interest in treating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-contaminated water. However, sluggish degradation kinetics and low defluorination efficiency compromise their practical applications. Here, we report a superior photocatalyst, defected Bi₃O(OH)(PO₄)₂, which could effectively degrade typical PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA ...
Raman spectroscopy; Salmonella; algorithms; foodborne illness; humans; model validation; neural networks; public health; salmonellosis; serotypes; spectral analysis; wavelengths
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... A widespread and escalating public health problem worldwide is foodborne illness, and foodborne Salmonella infection is one of the most common causes of human illness.For the three most pathogenic Salmonella serotypes, Raman spectroscopy was employed to acquire spectral data.As machine learning offers high efficiency and accuracy, we have chosen the convolutional neural network(CNN), which is suit ...
... Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) has been existing problems such as poor applicability to real wastewater and lack of cost-effective electrode materials in the practical application of refractory wastewater. A hydrolysis-acidification combined MEC system (HAR-MECs) with four inexpensive stainless-steel and conventional carbon cloth cathodes for the treatment of real textile-dyeing wastewater, whi ...
... The development of cost-effective sensing system for Hg²⁺ quantitation is highly demanded for environmental monitoring. In this work, we reported an on-site, rapid and portable smartphone-based Hg²⁺ sensing system integrating coumarin-modified paper as a probe and smartphone readout device as a processing platform. For fluorescent sensing of Hg²⁺, the modified paper was fabricated by chemically gr ...
... (±) Erysectin A (1), a new isoprenylated isoflavone with a rare acetonyl group, along with 15 known compounds including eight isoprenylated isoflavones (2–9), two isoprenylated flavanones (10–11), three flavanones (12–14), a flavone (15), and a chalcone (16), was isolated from the twigs and leaves of Erythrina secundiflora Hassk. Their structures were identified based on their 1 D and 2 D NMR spec ...
... (±)-Involucrasins A (1) and B (2), two pairs of flavanone enantiomers were isolated from Shuteria involucrata. Structurally, both 1 and 2 are rare representatives of 5-dehydroxy/5-demethoxy 2’,3’,4’-trisubstituted flavanones. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of comprehensive spectroscopic data analysis and comparison with the literature data. Involucrasin B (2) exhibited moderate anti ...
Corydalis yanhusuo; Western blotting; active sites; anti-inflammatory activity; bioassays; enantiomers; inducible nitric oxide synthase; interleukin-6; lipopolysaccharides; molecular dynamics; nitric oxide; plant biochemistry; skeleton; spectral analysis; transcription factor NF-kappa B
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... Six undescribed protoberberine derivatives including two pairs of enantiomers, named yanhusanines G-L, along with fifteen reported protoberberine alkaloids, were isolated from the tubers of Corydalis yanhusuo. Among them, yanhusanines H-L feature a unique 13,13a-seco skeleton which is rare in nature. Their structural elucidations were achieved by extensive spectroscopic analysis and quantum chemis ...
... The xenicane-type diterpene 13-epi-9-deacetylxenicin (1) was isolated from polar extract of the soft coral Asterospicularia laurae. The structure of 13-epi-9-deacetylxenicin was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, and the absoulte configuration was determined using the modified Mosher′s method. Eleven acylation products of 13-epi-9-deacetylxenicin were prepared: 13-epi-9-O-p-anisoylxenicin ( ...
... Detection of the early stages of stress is crucial in stabilizing crop yields and agricultural production. The aim of this study was to construct a nondestructive and robust method to predict the early physiological drought status of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum); for this purpose, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model with a one-dimensional (1D) kernel for fitting the visible and n ...
... ¹H-NMR guided fractionation led to the isolation of twenty-two coumarin monoterpenes from the whole plant of Gerbera piloselloides, among which fourteen were undescribed. All coumarin monoterpenes were initially found to be racemates without optical activity. Subsequently, eleven pairs of optically pure enantiomers were successfully separated by chiral phase HPLC. Their structures and absolute con ...
... One new 2-oxaspiro[4.5]decane, roussoellide, and one new α-pyrenocine, 2',3'-dihydropyrenocine A, together with nine known compounds including known arthropsolide A, and pyrenocines A and E, were obtained from the culture broth of the endophytic fungus Roussoella sp. Their structures were determined using spectroscopic data. The absolute configuration of known arthropsolide A was assigned on the b ...
... Two undescribed 30-norlanostane triterpenoids, named nidulanoids A and B, one ergostane-type steroid with an unusual double bond between C-17 and C-20 designated (17E,22E,24R)-3β,5α-dihydroxyergosta-7,17,22-trien-6,16-dione, and one pregnane, (7Z,9Z,17Z)-,2α,3β-dihydroxypregna-7,9,17 (20)-trien-18-al, along with six known steroids were isolated from the extract of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. ...
... The dark brown mixture resulting from the autooxidation of catechinic acid (CA) (AOCA) has been reported to possess antiviral activity against Herpes Simplex Virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2). Unfortunately, the constituents of AOCA were not separated or identified and the compound(s) responsible for AOCA’s antiviral activity remained unknown until recently. Colorless 4-hydroxy benzoic acid (4-HBA) ...
... Bees depend on the nectar from flora for the production of honey. Different flora produces unique nectar with varying compositions resulting in almost unlimited varieties in honey. In this work, we have used the 532-nm laser-induced Raman spectroscopic technique, for the first time, to study honey varieties from Iran. The Raman spectra of different kinds of commercial honey samples were obtained u ...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. cerevisiae; ambient temperature; biomass; energy; experimental design; mutagenesis; mutants; nanoparticles; protein content; rapid methods; selenium; sodium selenite; spectral analysis; transmission electron microscopy; yeasts
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... Atmospheric and room temperature plasma (ARTP) is a rapid method for strain to obtain desirable mutants. In this study, Saccharomyces boulardii was used for mutagenesis through ARTP mutagenesis and the medium for cultivation was further optimized by Box–Behnken design experiments. The biomass of the optimal mutant MSBV reached 42.8 g/L wet cell weight (WCW), and the total selenium (Se) was 13.96 m ...
... Twenty one abietane diterpenes were isolated from Cephalotaxus oliveri Mast. The structures of 7 undescribed diterpenoids, named cephaloliverins A-G, were elucidated via spectroscopic data interpretation and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) analysis. The isolated diterpenoids were evaluated for their cytotoxicity against three kinds of human tumor cell lines (MCF-7, HepG2, and A549). Metaglypti ...
... Five undescribed abietane diterpenoids, along with eight known analogs, were isolated from Phlegmariurus carinatus. Their structures were unambiguously elucidated by extensive analysis of spectroscopic data and comparison between the literature. The absolute configuration of phlecarinatone C was determined by evaluating ECD spectra. Four undescribed abietane diterpenoids and eight known analogs we ...
... Electrical activity in plants undergoes potential changes in interpreting the plant's physiological state. These electrical signals show arbitrary and probabilistic dynamics in which stress can be detected and analysed in the early stages of symptom appearance in plants. Evaluation of uncertainty in plant signals by signal strength enhancement is stress-specific. In this paper, we considered physi ...
... The radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzyme HydG cleaves tyrosine to generate CO and CN– ligands of the [FeFe] hydrogenase H-cluster, accompanied by the formation of a 4-oxidobenzyl radical (4-OB•), which is the precursor to the HydG p-cresol byproduct. Native HydG only generates a small amount of 4-OB•, limiting detailed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectral characterization beyond ...
... Five mono-tetrahydrofuran acetogenins: uvamicranins A–E and three known mono-tetrahydrofuran acetogenins; reticulatacin, calamistrin A, and uvarigrin, were isolated from the stems of Uvaria micrantha (Annonaceae). Their structures were elucidated by 2D NMR and high-resolution mass spectral analysis. The absolute configurations of uvamicranins A and B were determined by modified Mosher's method. Ev ...
calibration; data collection; models; spectral analysis
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... Due to the differences in instruments and measurement methods, soil visible-near infrared (Vis-NIR) spectral data collected worldwide cannot be combined to provide consistent calibration models, reducing the benefit of producing soil spectra libraries. We propose an attention-based spectra encoding-spectra/property decoding model for soil Vis-NIR spectral analysis to solve this problem. By introdu ...
... The antibacterial mechanisms of cuminaldehyde (p-Isopropylbenzaldehyde, CUM) against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 (S. aureus) were investigated from the aspects of membrane damage, and interaction with genomic DNA. The results demonstrated that the MIC of CUM against S. aureus was 0.8 μL/mL. Approximately 6 log CFU/mL of S. aureus could be killed after treatment with MIC of CUM after 8 h. Addit ...
absorbance; activated carbon; cement; composite materials; cost effectiveness; dyes; evaporation rate; foams; generators (equipment); heat; hydrophilicity; lighting; liquid-air interface; polyurethanes; solar radiation; solar still; spectral analysis; surface temperature; wastewater; water filters; water pollution; water supply; water treatment
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... Solar thermal evaporation (STE) is a promising advanced technique to purify contaminated water under the influence of solar light. Naturally, cement has served as a binder in masonry-related applications and possesses light-absorbing properties. Herein, we fabricated a cost-effective high-durable cement/carbon/polyurethane foam (CCPF) composite material as a solar-driven evaporator. It provided an ...
... Tenvermectins A and B (TVMs A and B) are hybrid natural compounds of avermectins and milbemycins with enhanced insecticidal activity. Aiming at obtaining a strain for the production of the higher activity metabolite–TVM-B as a major constituent, a recombinant strain Streptomyces avermitilis HU02 was constructed by a domain swapping strategy in which milA1-AT0 gene in S. avermitilis MHJ1011 was rep ...
... Three new cyclic peptide–polyketide hybrids (1–3) and two new chaetiacandin-type polyketides (4 and 5) along with nine known compounds were isolated from cultures of a halophyte-associated fungus, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides JS0417. Spectroscopic analysis revealed that 1–3 were cyclic depsipeptides where 3,5,11-trihydroxy-2,6-dimethyldodecanoic acid was linked to two amino acids through amide a ...
... The main focus of this work was to prepare graphene tin oxide composite as a novel adsorbent for the removal of hazardous anionic dye, Congo Red, from aqueous systems. The composite was prepared by a simple solvothermal method. The adsorbent was characterized via scanning electron microscopic analysis, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and t ...
Jing Sheng Ng; Syahidah Akmal Muhammad; Chin Hong Yong; Ainolsyakira Mohd Rodhi; Baharudin Ibrahim; Mohd Noor Hidayat Adenan; Salmah Moosa; Zainon Othman; Nazaratul Ashifa Abdullah Salim; Zawiyah Sharif; Faridah Ismail; Simon D. Kelly; Andrew Cannavan
adulterated products; agar; birds; chemometrics; collagen; discriminant analysis; market prices; spectral analysis; spectrometers; spectroscopy; traditional medicine; Malaysia
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... Edible bird’s nests (EBNs) are vulnerable to adulteration due to their huge demand for traditional medicine and high market price. Presently, there are pressing needs to explore field-deployable rapid screening techniques to detect adulteration of EBNs. The objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a handheld near-infrared (VIS/SW-NIR) spectroscopic device for the determinatio ...
... Soil aggregation is an important property, affecting issues such as soil structure and dust load. To investigate the potential to evaluate soil aggregation status via proximal sensing, we conducted a comprehensive study using the legacy soil spectral library (SSL) of Israel representing arid and semiarid environments. The SSL was segregated into six soil aggregate size fractions as follows: 2–1.4 ...
automation; models; spectral analysis; spectroscopy; support vector machines; variance; India
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... We used Advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) hyperspectral data for deriving automated layered igneous intrusion maps by implementing the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. We proposed a spectral analysis based approach to identify a set of optimum input spectral bands for deriving SVM-based maps of layered rocks of Sittampundi Layered Complex, India. We ...
... Propolis has become a valuable byproduct of meliponiculture industry in recent years, due to its remarkable pharmacological importance. The propolis of Heterotrigina itama was extracted at pH 8–10 using ultrasonication. The results found that alkaline hydrolysis improved propolis quality, particularly at the mild alkaline condition. This was because higher amount of phenolics and flavonoids with h ...
... Chemical investigation of endophytic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus HQD24, isolated from the flower of Rhizophora mucronata led to the isolation of eight alkaloids, including pyripyropene A (1), 1,11-dideacetyl-pyripyropene A (2), pyripyropene E (3), chaetominine (4), tryptoquivaline J (5), fumitremorgin C (6), 1-acetyl-β-carboline (7), and nicotinic acid (8). Their structures were unambiguously elu ...
... Medicinal plants are rich sources of bioactive substances that can be used to develop environmentally friendly weed control alternatives. Marsdenia tenacissima (Roxb.) Moon is a traditional medicinal plant well known for its pharmacological activities and several bioactive compounds. However, its allelopathy and related substances have not been reported. Hence, the present study was conducted to e ...
... Calmodulin (CaM), a ubiquitous and highly conserved Ca²⁺-sensor protein involved in the regulation of over 300 molecular targets, has been recently associated with severe forms of lethal arrhythmia. Here, we investigated how arrhythmia-associated mutations in CaM localized at the C-terminal lobe alter the molecular recognition with Ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2), specifically expressed in cardiomyocy ...
Guillermo Núñez-Mojica; Martha L. Hernández-Carrillo; Francisco G. Avalos-Alanís; Elvira Garza-González; Verónica M. Rivas-Galindo; David A. Silva-Mares; Marc-Antoine Bazin; Pascal Marchand; María del Rayo Camacho-Corona
Enterococcus faecium; Larrea tridentata; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; active ingredients; antibacterial properties; drug resistance; lignans; plant biochemistry; spectral analysis
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... Larrea tridentata antibacterial lignan 4,4′-dihydroxy-3-methoxy-6,7′-cyclolignan (1) was derivatized to obtain eleven new amino ether derivatives (2 A-12 C). The structural elucidation of compounds was performed by analysis of 1D- and 2D NMR spectral data and HRESIMS. The antibacterial activity of compounds was determined against nine drug-resistant bacteria and two strains of Mycobacterium tuberc ...
... Arsenic (As), a geogenic legacy pollutant can be present in environmental matrices (water, soil, plants, or animal) in two redox states (As(III) or As(V)). In the present study, charged mono- and di-amino functionalized triethoxy and methoxyorganosilane (TT1 and TT2- 1% and 5%) were impregnated with quartz sand particles for the treatment of As polluted water. Spectroscopic characterization of org ...